Albiñocas 4 - 0 Espinete (383030387)

Fairly good weather for football had drawn a crowd of 24136 to Nuevo Albiñocas. Philipp Pinter was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Jungo Yosano and Daniel R. Henriksson. Albiñocas started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. Lineup: Andersons - Mircan, Koolen, Tarzia - Camisão, Ferrater, Miñón Herreros, Bratušek, Donkov - Magriñà, Mingo.

A 3-5-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Espinete. They fielded: Munteanu - Saarland, Neiva, Carrasco - Ashman, Serrano, Nogueira, Rubio, Freixenet - Pučkorius, Paez.

Using their counter-attacking abilities was the strategy of choice for Espinete. After 8 minutes, S. Magriñà came in from the right, feinted, then sped past the off-balance defender to make the score 1 - 0, giving Albiñocas the lead. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave A. Miñón Herreros from Albiñocas a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 11 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! After 15 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and F. Mingo gave the Albiñocas supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 2 - 0. O. Koolen increased the lead for Albiñocas to 3 - 0, getting a head onto a hooked ball from the right. The ball looked to have taken a deflection on the way in, but he's claiming it! P. Ferrater could have increased the lead after 24 minutes, but his shot hit the post after a nice combination in the middle of the park. The teams went for the halftime break at 3 - 0. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Albiñocas, with 54 percent of the ball.

47 minutes into the game, Albiñocas were awarded a penalty that P. Ferrater turned into 4 - 0 without a problem. By now, the players in Albiñocas felt that victory was guaranteed and began to play it safe, focusing on defence and not risking too much going forward. Espinete needed a fresh pair of legs on the field, and after 72 minutes M. Serrano made way for S. Vinslauskas. The crowd roared its approval when V. Andersons somehow managed to block a shot which seemed to be a certain goal by Espinete's R. Paez 80 minutes into the game. Espinete's L. Saarland was shown a yellow card after 81 minutes for slicing down an opponent. Albiñocas claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 53 percent.

P. Ferrater performed admirably for Albiñocas. However, A. Donkov made a disastrous appearance. Espinete's best player was L. Pučkorius. M. Munteanu on the other hand, had a terrible day. The match ends 4 - 0.